Thank You For Showing Me Wolgas, That Does Indeed Sound Like A Kingly Trip.

Thank you for showing me Wolgas, that does indeed sound like a kingly trip.

Flake's podcast - König und Königin (King and Queen)

Published 2020-12-09, i can't find if i did a post on it at the time, but it's possible i didn't (I'm giving tumblr the benefit of the doubt here), so here it is, before it dissappears from the Radio Eins webpage.

I think the podcasts are regularly reposted though, every 2nd tuesday there is a new Flake podcast, but every 4th tuesday they re-publish an older one, so with a bit of luck we'll get another listen somewhere in the future 🌹

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FLAKE. Des Tastenfickers Podcast.

Flake ist der „Tastenficker“ von Rammstein und Autor von Bestellern. Seine Kenntnis ungewöhnlicher Musiktitel ist grenzenlos; seine Themen u

Not that many anecdotes in this one, mainly Flake playing music an musing on bandnames and songs etc (which, now we know that Richard listens to Flake's podcasts, i'm pretty sure he'll give Flake a call afterwards to correct some facts 😁 like on the band King, named after singer Paul King, which Flake it seems thinks is a bit pretentious to call yourself 'king', but in this case it's actually the guy's name 🍀).

But there is a little gem starting about 1h31, when Flake announces the next song is one that is only known to 4 people in the world, and he is one of them, it is called 'Der König' (The king)

Flake basically spend his entire time playing music, in official bands, but also getting together with other friends and just playing for the fun of it. When there weren't concerts to play, they would just take their instruments, drive somewhere and play. This time there were 4 of them: André Greiner-Pol (singer and guitarist of Freygang, he was forbidden to play by the state at the time, so he was bored), Alexander Kriening (by that time former drummer of Feeling B, because he didn't want to commit to one particular band), Flake, and a technician (who by the way is still sound technician for Rammstein).

The 4 of them drove to a house in the village Oderbruch (very near the polish border), without any plan, just taking along their gear. The first day they spent putting together all their equipment, second day they played a bunch of songs, and the third day they played everything on cassette-tape, so they could have their friends listen to it. And between playing they went on walks to the village (to buy milk and cheese), Flake got to drive the car, he didn't have a license yet, but André let him drive his 'Wolga' car. It made Flake feel like a king, he just did what was fun to do, the weather was nice, they were great friends and had loads to talk about.

Life was really okay for Flake 😍

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Some photos for illustration

André Greiner-Pol

Alexander Kriening and Flake

André and his car, not sure if this is the same as in the story, but these are the kind of cars they used.

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Is it just me or is Blixa doing this?

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😜 Describe a current WIP without using character names. (Points if your followers guess who the fic is for.)

Just one scene - At a party where neither are drinking, CharA makes an effort to cook, but CharB takes over and CharA flirts with them and both have a nice time.

🤡 What’s the dumbest thing you’ve written?

I mean, Richard drawing on Flake's butt was pretty dumb :D

✏️ What is your fave fic from another writer?

We're going to be here all day if I have to pick just one, but a few lesser-known favorites are last of the gang to bleed out, My Girl., and Switch and Swap.

Flake’s hands in that first one!

Rammstein - Nürnberg, Germany, 11.05.2001

FUUUUUUU I thought Gaze was as hot as it could possibly be, but I see now that I was wrong

Ok, so: fanfic ask game! 😂, 😜, 🗑, 💡, ❓ and 💕 *excited puppy mode*

Aaaah thanks for all these emojis! :D

😂 What’s the funniest comment someone has left on a fic of yours?

Aaah I don't know, all the comments I get are amazing and fill me with joy and make me cackle like an idiot :D. In one of your comments on Gaze though at some point you said "*gremlin voice* I am pleased" and it really cracked me up - I think about it often and sometimes I say it IRL :D

😜 Describe a current WIP without using character names. (Points if your followers guess who the fic is for.)

I described one already so let me think of another... OK, I'm cheating, but have a censored version of an actual line of the fic: "Xxxxx is unhinged and gives good head so they meet again." (I think I'll finish this one, I mapped out most of it already, but it's quite decadent and I'm actually slightly embarrassed by the whole thing, so XD)

🗑 What is one fic idea that you loved at first but then scrapped?

I never really scrap anything for good, but some ideas end up in the purgatory usually because I'm too lazy to carry them through. One of these is a Rammstein 6-some O:)

💡 What’s the weirdest thing you’ve been inspired by? I'm inspired by anything and everything, books and movies and paintings and conversations and so on. Nothing really weird I think, but maybe unlikely. Sometimes it's very serious essays. Sometimes it's vintage lesbian smut. And sometimes it's just a very specific strap-on harness :D

❓Write an alternate summary for a published fic without using names. (Points if your followers can guess the fic.)

A story about tiredness, cosmic alignments, and what friendship can mean.

💕 What is the WIP that you are most excited about?

I answered this one already too, so this time I'll say the one from your previous question. I also have this old Tillchard project that is pretty trashy/decadent too, I should go back to it, it's fun and easy to write...